FLOATING TERRITORIAL ARRANGEMENTS OF THE RIVER LAKE OF TEFÉ AND COARI IN THE AMAZONAS

Abstract The largest urban centers of the Middle Solimões River region in Amazonas State, the cities of Tefé and Coari, have hundreds of traditional Amazonian fluvial structures exercising different spatial functions, they are the floating ones. The objective of this article is to understand the role of the floatings in these cities for regional development and territorial integration. At first, a classification is proposed based on the identification of the residential, commercial, institutional and service functions performed by the floatings in both lakes. Then, a characterization and classification of the floating territorial arrangements of these cities is elaborated. This reading provides subsidies for the understanding of social and economic relations in peripheral fluvial spaces in the Amazon useful or not to integrate the territory and develop this complex region of brazilian sociospatial formation.